Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Kosovo and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Roxy Music to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Stockholm Monsters,
a-ha,
Judy Mowatt,
Deadbeat,
Alison Limerick,
Kevin Saunderson,
Young Marble Giants,
The Move,
The Music Machine,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fela Kuti,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Royal Trux,
Joy Division,
Clear Light,
Nico,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Angels of Light,
E-Dancer,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Donald Byrd,
Vainqueur,
T.S.O.L.,
Eden Ahbez,
Nick Fraelich,
Alton Ellis,
Boredoms,
The Neon Judgement,
Echospace,
John Holt,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Radiohead,
Boz Scaggs,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sun Ra,
Accadde A,
Bill Near,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Sherman,
Magazine,
June Days,
Hardrive,
The Fire Engines,
Half Japanese,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bronski Beat,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kerrie Biddell,
Shuggie Otis,
Harmonia,
The Last Poets,
The Gun Club,
DJ Sneak,
The Skatalites,
Marc Almond,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Mojo Men,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.